Community Resource Connection

Collaborators

Our Aim

Houston in Motion is a collaboration between The Firestarter Group, a local nonprofit focusing on social enterprise, and Dr. Yehuda Sharim, a Kinder Scholar at Rice University. Our work has expanded to include leadership from all resettlement agencies in Houston, student organizers from Rice University, social activists from a diversity of migrant communities, and local refugee service organizations. Together, our mission is to build comprehensive processes for reforming the system of refugee resettlement in Houston and making tangible change to support the work of local refugee community groups across the city. We have been pursuing these objectives by developing a centralized digital directory of local organizations, running events with refugee communities across Houston, and supporting the production of artistic works depicting new migrant experiences.